[Bug]: macOS: trouble with Spotlight indexation of some files #1522
Description
Describe the bug
Why does ocrmypdf on certain PDF files produce words that are recognized as concatenated for Spotlight indexing, thereby this document is no searchable?
testredocr.pdf
testredocr_.pdf
However, copying and pasting text is normal...
Steps to reproduce
Run `ocrmypdf --language fra --redo-ocr 'testredocr.pdf' 'testredocr_.pdf'`
`MacPorts` installed
Files
How did you download and install the software?
No response
OCRmyPDF version
16.10.1
Relevant log output
ocrmypdf --language fra --redo-ocr -v1 'testredocr.pdf' 'testredocr_.pdf'
ocrmypdf 16.10.1 __main__.py:59
Running: ['tesseract', '--version'] __init__.py:133
Found tesseract 5.4.1 __init__.py:345
Running: ['tesseract', '--version'] __init__.py:133
Running: ['tesseract', '--version'] __init__.py:133
Running: ['gs', '--version'] __init__.py:133
Found gs 10.5.0 __init__.py:345
Running: ['gs', '--version'] __init__.py:133
Running: ['tesseract', '--list-langs'] __init__.py:133
stdout/stderr = List of available languages in "/opt/local/share/tessdata/" (4): __init__.py:73
deu
eng
fra
osd
pikepdf mmap enabled helpers.py:328
os.symlink(testredocr.pdf, /var/folders/ps/z7flxvdj3b97p9_07lknl6dc0000gn/T/ocrmypdf.io.7jpmkds2/origin) helpers.py:179
Gathering info with 1 thread workers info.py:816
pikepdf mmap enabled helpers.py:328
Scanning contents ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% 2/2 0:00:00
Using Tesseract OpenMP thread limit 3 tesseract_ocr.py:199
Start processing 2 pages concurrently ocr.py:96
pikepdf mmap enabled helpers.py:328
pikepdf mmap enabled helpers.py:328
1 redoing OCR _pipeline.py:340
2 redoing OCR _pipeline.py:340
1 Rasterize with png16m, rotation 0 _pipeline.py:552
2 Rasterize with pngmono, rotation 0 _pipeline.py:552
1 Running: ['gs', '-dSAFER', '-dBATCH', '-dNOPAUSE', '-dInterpolateControl=-1', '-sDEVICE=png16m', '-dFirstPage=1', __init__.py:133
'-dLastPage=1', '-r400.000000x400.000000', '-dPDFSTOPONERROR', '-o',
'/var/folders/ps/z7flxvdj3b97p9_07lknl6dc0000gn/T/ocrmypdf.io.7jpmkds2/000001_rasterize.png', '-sstdout=%stderr',
'-dAutoRotatePages=/None', '-f', '/var/folders/ps/z7flxvdj3b97p9_07lknl6dc0000gn/T/ocrmypdf.io.7jpmkds2/origin.pdf']
2 Running: ['gs', '-dSAFER', '-dBATCH', '-dNOPAUSE', '-dInterpolateControl=-1', '-sDEVICE=pngmono', '-dFirstPage=2', __init__.py:133
'-dLastPage=2', '-r400.000000x400.000000', '-dPDFSTOPONERROR', '-o',
'/var/folders/ps/z7flxvdj3b97p9_07lknl6dc0000gn/T/ocrmypdf.io.7jpmkds2/000002_rasterize.png', '-sstdout=%stderr',
'-dAutoRotatePages=/None', '-f', '/var/folders/ps/z7flxvdj3b97p9_07lknl6dc0000gn/T/ocrmypdf.io.7jpmkds2/origin.pdf']
2 stderr = GPL Ghostscript 10.05.0 (2025-03-12) __init__.py:75
Copyright (C) 2025 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software is supplied under the GNU AGPLv3 and comes with NO WARRANTY:
see the file COPYING for details.
Processing pages 2 through 2.
Page 2
Loading font Helvetica (or substitute) from /opt/local/share/ghostscript/10.05.0/Resource/Font/NimbusSans-Regular
2 Rotating output by 0 ghostscript.py:161
2 resolution (399.9992, 399.9992) _pipeline.py:631
2 blanking (560.7051563652223, 324.00398378722275, 738.5048007652222, 390.6705171205558) _pipeline.py:655
2 blanking (1254.061769649222, 324.00398378722275, 1383.7281769825554, 390.6705171205558) _pipeline.py:655
2 blanking (1943.751723599889, 324.00398378722275, 2032.618212533222, 390.6705171205558) _pipeline.py:655
2 blanking (2592.675092417222, 324.00398378722275, 2722.274833217222, 390.6705171205558) _pipeline.py:655
2 blanking (520.8385694318888, 428.84821854277743, 778.3713876985554, 495.5147518761114) _pipeline.py:655
2 blanking (1222.9284985825554, 428.84821854277743, 1371.1948687158888, 495.5147518761114) _pipeline.py:655
2 blanking (1873.6851970665555, 428.84821854277743, 2059.018159733222, 495.5147518761114) _pipeline.py:655
2 blanking (2542.975191817222, 428.84821854277743, 2728.3081544838888, 495.5147518761114) _pipeline.py:655
2 blanking (314.9599811898889, 617.0256199649998, 920.5587699898888, 683.6921532983333) _pipeline.py:655
2 blanking (2763.1204181925555, 617.0256199649998, 2948.453380859222, 683.6921532983333) _pipeline.py:655
2 blanking (1053.2745045578888, 805.2030213872226, 2253.8054368245557, 948.9360672538887) _pipeline.py:655
2 blanking (314.9599811898889, 959.3360464538891, 2504.8222681232223, 1026.0025797872227) _pipeline.py:655
2 blanking (2899.4534788592223, 4294.1734878767775, 2992.119960192556, 4360.840021210111) _pipeline.py:655
2 Running: ['tesseract', '-l', 'fra', __init__.py:133
'/var/folders/ps/z7flxvdj3b97p9_07lknl6dc0000gn/T/ocrmypdf.io.7jpmkds2/000002_ocr.png',
'/var/folders/ps/z7flxvdj3b97p9_07lknl6dc0000gn/T/ocrmypdf.io.7jpmkds2/000002_ocr_hocr', 'hocr', 'txt']
1 stderr = GPL Ghostscript 10.05.0 (2025-03-12) __init__.py:75
Copyright (C) 2025 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software is supplied under the GNU AGPLv3 and comes with NO WARRANTY:
see the file COPYING for details.
Processing pages 1 through 1.
Page 1
Loading font Helvetica (or substitute) from /opt/local/share/ghostscript/10.05.0/Resource/Font/NimbusSans-Regular
Loading font Helvetica-Bold (or substitute) from /opt/local/share/ghostscript/10.05.0/Resource/Font/NimbusSans-Bold
2 [tesseract] Empty page!! tesseract.py:259
2 [tesseract] Empty page!! tesseract.py:259
2 pikepdf.Matrix(0.18, 0, 0, -0.18, 0, 841.86) _hocr.py:219
2 Text rotation: (text, autorotate, content) -> text misalignment = (0, 0, 0) -> 0 _graft.py:152
2 Grafting _graft.py:263
2 Grafting with ctm pikepdf.Matrix(1.00003, 0, 0, 1.00004, 0, -5.68434e-14) _graft.py:306
2 Page rotation: (content, auto) -> page = (0, 0) -> 0 _graft.py:177
1 resolution (399.9992, 399.9992) _pipeline.py:631
1 blanking (407.3873518903333, 326.0706463205561, 1114.919270157, 628.6700411205561) _pipeline.py:655
1 blanking (2175.1273719587775, 441.67041512055584, 2916.7258887587777, 744.0698103205564) _pipeline.py:655
1 blanking (314.9599811898889, 639.0700203205565, 1078.0251217232221, 782.8030661872231) _pipeline.py:655
1 blanking (394.4873776903333, 793.2030453872226, 1127.8192443569997, 859.8695787205561) _pipeline.py:655
1 blanking (1045.8745193578889, 981.3804468094445, 2261.2054220245554, 1125.113492676111) _pipeline.py:655
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1 blanking (2394.1859893962223, 1981.9340012538892, 2542.4523595295555, 2048.6005345872227) _pipeline.py:655
1 blanking (2800.7308429715554, 1981.9340012538892, 2848.8640800382223, 2048.6005345872227) _pipeline.py:655
1 blanking (314.9599811898889, 1957.2896060983335, 1256.0247657232221, 2101.022651965) _pipeline.py:655
1 blanking (577.5127338611111, 2111.422631165, 833.2455557277777, 2178.0891644983335) _pipeline.py:655
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1 blanking (2394.1859893962223, 2202.3780048094445, 2542.4523595295555, 2269.0445381427776) _pipeline.py:655
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1 blanking (314.9599811898889, 2216.2668659205556, 518.7595735898889, 2282.9333992538886) _pipeline.py:655
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1 blanking (314.9599811898889, 2398.1776132094446, 533.5595439898889, 2464.8441465427777) _pipeline.py:655
1 blanking (577.5127338611111, 2475.244125742778, 833.2455557277777, 2541.910659076111) _pipeline.py:655
1 blanking (911.809176378, 2475.244125742778, 1248.3389477615556, 2541.910659076111) _pipeline.py:655
1 blanking (2394.1859893962223, 2566.199499387222, 2542.4523595295555, 2632.8660327205553) _pipeline.py:655
1 blanking (2800.7308429715554, 2566.199499387222, 2848.8640800382223, 2632.8660327205553) _pipeline.py:655
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1 blanking (1481.3069818245554, 3506.508729876111, 1825.7729595578885, 3573.1752632094444) _pipeline.py:655
1 blanking (2763.1204181925555, 3694.8861308983337, 2948.453380859222, 3915.6856892983333) _pipeline.py:655
1 blanking (314.9599811898889, 3694.8861308983337, 918.8254401232223, 3992.7522018316668) _pipeline.py:655
1 blanking (2955.053367659222, 3926.0856684983332, 2992.1199601925555, 3992.7522018316668) _pipeline.py:655
1 blanking (2899.4534788592223, 4294.1734878767775, 2992.119960192556, 4360.840021210111) _pipeline.py:655
1 Running: ['tesseract', '-l', 'fra', __init__.py:133
'/var/folders/ps/z7flxvdj3b97p9_07lknl6dc0000gn/T/ocrmypdf.io.7jpmkds2/000001_ocr.png',
'/var/folders/ps/z7flxvdj3b97p9_07lknl6dc0000gn/T/ocrmypdf.io.7jpmkds2/000001_ocr_hocr', 'hocr', 'txt']
1 pikepdf.Matrix(0.18, 0, 0, -0.18, 0, 841.86) _hocr.py:219
1 fra _hocr.py:287
1 fra _hocr.py:287
1 Text rotation: (text, autorotate, content) -> text misalignment = (0, 0, 0) -> 0 _graft.py:152
1 Grafting _graft.py:263
1 Grafting with ctm pikepdf.Matrix(1.00003, 0, 0, 1.00004, 0, -5.68434e-14) _graft.py:306
1 Page rotation: (content, auto) -> page = (0, 0) -> 0 _graft.py:177
OCR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% 2/2 0:00:00
Postprocessing... ocr.py:144
os.symlink(/var/folders/ps/z7flxvdj3b97p9_07lknl6dc0000gn/T/ocrmypdf.io.7jpmkds2/graft_layers.pdf, helpers.py:179
/var/folders/ps/z7flxvdj3b97p9_07lknl6dc0000gn/T/ocrmypdf.io.7jpmkds2/fix_docinfo.pdf)
Running: ['gs', '--version'] __init__.py:133
Running: ['gs', '-dBATCH', '-dNOPAUSE', '-dSAFER', '-dCompatibilityLevel=1.6', '-sDEVICE=pdfwrite', '-dAutoRotatePages=/None', __init__.py:133
'-sColorConversionStrategy=LeaveColorUnchanged', '-dPDFSTOPONERROR', '-dAutoFilterColorImages=true',
'-dAutoFilterGrayImages=true', '-dJPEGQ=95', '-dPDFA=2', '-dPDFACompatibilityPolicy=1', '-o',
'/var/folders/ps/z7flxvdj3b97p9_07lknl6dc0000gn/T/ocrmypdf.io.7jpmkds2/pdfa.pdf', '-sstdout=%stderr',
'/var/folders/ps/z7flxvdj3b97p9_07lknl6dc0000gn/T/ocrmypdf.io.7jpmkds2/pdfa.ps',
'/var/folders/ps/z7flxvdj3b97p9_07lknl6dc0000gn/T/ocrmypdf.io.7jpmkds2/fix_docinfo.pdf']
GPL Ghostscript 10.05.0 (2025-03-12) __init__.py:108
Copyright (C) 2025 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. __init__.py:108
This software is supplied under the GNU AGPLv3 and comes with NO WARRANTY: __init__.py:108
see the file COPYING for details. __init__.py:108
Processing pages 1 through 2. __init__.py:108
Page 1 __init__.py:108
Loading font Helvetica (or substitute) from /opt/local/share/ghostscript/10.05.0/Resource/Font/NimbusSans-Regular __init__.py:108
Loading font Helvetica-Bold (or substitute) from /opt/local/share/ghostscript/10.05.0/Resource/Font/NimbusSans-Bold __init__.py:108
Page 2 __init__.py:108
PDF/A conversion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% 2/2 0:00:00
Running: ['tesseract', '--version'] __init__.py:133
Linearizing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% 100/100 0:00:00
xref 27: treating as an optimization candidate optimize.py:290
XrefExt(xref=27, ext='.png') optimize.py:355
Optimizable images: JPEGs: 0 PNGs: 1 optimize.py:360
Recompressing JPEGs ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0% 0/0 -:--:--
xref 27: treating as an optimization candidate optimize.py:290
xref 27: marking this JPEG as deflatable optimize.py:555
Deflating JPEGs ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% 1/1 0:00:00
xref 27: treating as an optimization candidate optimize.py:290
xref 27: found image compressed as /FlateDecode /DCTDecode, marked for JPEG optimization optimize.py:103
Optimizable images: JBIG2 groups: 0 optimize.py:371
JBIG2 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0% 0/0 -:--:--
os.symlink(/var/folders/ps/z7flxvdj3b97p9_07lknl6dc0000gn/T/ocrmypdf.io.7jpmkds2/optimize.opt.pdf, helpers.py:179
/var/folders/ps/z7flxvdj3b97p9_07lknl6dc0000gn/T/ocrmypdf.io.7jpmkds2/optimize.pdf)
Running: ['jbig2', '--version'] __init__.py:133
Running: ['pngquant', '--version'] __init__.py:133
Image optimization ratio: 1.26 savings: 20.7% _pipeline.py:1002
Total file size ratio: 0.82 savings: -21.6% _pipeline.py:1005
/var/folders/ps/z7flxvdj3b97p9_07lknl6dc0000gn/T/ocrmypdf.io.7jpmkds2/optimize.pdf -> testredocr_.pdf _pipeline.py:1077
Output file is a PDF/A-2B (as expected) _common.py:474